Art, Iris Murdoch

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

- Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)

Universe, Henri Bergson

[L]'universe […] est une machine à faire des dieux.
Translation: The universe is a machine for making gods.

- Henri Bergson (1859-1941), The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932). Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002, p. 317.

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